How To Survive A Fall From An Airplane | Random Thursday

up to 30% of people have anxiety around flying without the 10% of people experiencing full-on panic attacks it's not hard to understand why even though plane crashes are rare when they do happen there's not a whole lot of surviving going on not to mention you're putting your life entirely in the hands of total strangers granted they're total strangers that have spent thousands of hours doing this but still I mean it's far more dangerous to drive but at least when you're driving you feel like you're in some kind of control of the situation not to mention this whole idea that a giant metal tube is just defying the laws of gravity you know it's kind of goes against everything that we you know think is right plus you never hear anything good about flying you know if something is on the news about flying it's something terrible happened so I used to have a fear of being in a plane crash just like everybody else but then I worked at an airport restaurant when I was in college I worked at one of those restaurants that you see in the terminals that was right by a gate and I was able to see day in and day out just how many planes come in I mean the gate that I worked at had five or six flights out of it every single day and that was one gate out of like 32 in that terminal which was one out of four in that one Airport which is one out of thousands around the world I mean you can look at air travel and the numbers and statistics that's one thing but it's a different thing to actually see it so yeah that many planes flying 24 hours a day every single day of the year and if anything goes wrong on any of them it makes national news so we hear about the bad stuff but we don't see this giant incredibly amazing machine of Transportation that we'd built so that experience did completely change my perception around flying but as I'm about to explain in this video even if the worst does happen you do still have a chance of surviving it now before I get started in this video I want to make something perfectly clear your chances of surviving if you are in a plane crash unfortunately are incredibly small I don't want to give you any kind of false sense of hope should the worst thing happen this is it wait I saw that Joe Scott video where he talked about people surviving plane crashes cool I'll be fine no no if you fall from 30,000 feet you are definitely not gonna be fine chances are you did but there have been people that have fallen from incredible Heights and lived to tell the tale and luckily we can learn from their stories and maybe increase our chances from point zero zero one percent two point zero zero two percent I mean that's double my friend so the first crazy story is a face that we've all seen somewhere before either on TV or in a dank meme Bear Grylls Bear Grylls was the host of man vs. wild but before he became a television personality he actually served in the British Armed Forces as a member of the SAS territorial army bear was participating in a training exercise over Zambia when his parachute failed to inflate and he came crashing to the ground 16,000 feet and he actually landed on his parachute pack which broke his back but luckily didn't sever his spinal cord at which point he stood up looked around assess the situation and realized his only course of action was the drink his own piss actually it took a whole year of ten hour a day therapy sessions to get him back in fighting shape and good thing I did the man's a damn treasure keeping with the military theme of fairly famous cases that of Alan McGee in World War two Alan McGee was an American airman in a ball turret gunner and a b-17 which I'm sorry has to be one of the most nightmarish jobs anybody's ever had made even more nightmarish when he was shot out of his plane over st. Nazaire France he fell more than 22,000 feet and crashed through the glass ceiling of a train station and this load has falled just enough that when he landed on the train platform he only sustained minor injuries and he was immediately captured by the Germans who were so impressed that he actually survived this that they actually gave him a certificate that he could take home to prove to everybody that what happened to him really happened see the Nazis weren't on bad they gave certificates so that's the thing sticking with the German theme let's talk about juliane koepcke segues in this video come on fireman Julianne was a German 17-year old who was flying through Peru with her mother from Lima to pop Kawa pukeko Pucallpa Pacala piccata piccata pooch Olga who Champa anyway her plane went down in a thunderstorm on Christmas Eve no less yeah the crash killed everyone onboard tragically including her mother but you Leanne's somehow survived landing in the middle of the Amazon rainforest still strapped to her seat surrounded by Christmas presents normally being surrounded by Christmas presents is a good thing she had a broken collarbone and multiple open wounds but she was alive and this is actually where her story gets really amazing so her father was a biologist and he taught her that if she was ever lost to find water and follow it because you know little streams become big streams become rivers and where there are rivers there are usually people so she found a small stream and followed it for 10 days she encountered crocodiles she kept stingrays at bay by using a sharpened stick she had maggots and Festinger wounds but she kept pushing on until she eventually found a canoe on the side of the river and found some Lumberjacks that were able to take her away to safety there's actually a documentary made about her by a Verner Herzog I'll link to it down in the description man there's horses all doing an Eevee Ibaka's ago in zoo rainforests and you can't do a list of plane crash survivors without talking about vesna vulovic vesna vulovic was a serbian flight attendant on jav flight 376 on january 26 1972 when a bomb went off over Czechoslovakia killing everyone on board everyone except Fez know the story is that she was wedged between the serving cart and a seat so when the plane blew up everybody else got thrown out of the airplane whereas she got stuck there in the tail section which landed on a very wooded mountain that happened to be covered with snow and the last bit of luck was a peasant happen to be found by a farmer in the area that happened to be a medic in World War two so he was able to treat her until the emergency personnel arrived so lucky yes but still pretty messed up she suffered a fractured skull broke both of her legs her pelvis several ribs and three vertebrae in the back one of which was completely shattered she was in a coma for several days after the accident and when she awoke she had absolutely no memory that had happened the last thing she remembered was helping people onto the plane and it was gonna be it was two weeks before people are able to actually tell her what happened and she was also paralyzed from the waist down but amazingly she did eventually and make a complete recovery and even went back to being a flight attendant vesna became something of a national hero and she was actually recognized in 1985 by the Guinness World Records for surviving the highest fall without a parachute at 33,000 feet so people have survived these kinds of things according to the people who study it 43 people have survived drops of over 10,000 feet so let's say you're cruising along at 33,000 feet and the worst thing happens and you want to be number 44 what can you do to survive well here's what they say to do first thing is either be a child or a flight attendant I know both of those are out of your control but those two are more over-represented in the number of survivors of these things children sit lower in the seat which means that their heads are more protected from flying debris also they weigh less so they hit the ground a little bit less force and when they do hit the ground their bones are more supple they've got more body fat and that protects their internal organs flight attendants and crew when they're not slinging pretzels are usually hanging out in either the front or the back of the plane these are two parts of the plane that are least likely to be torn apart and least likely to suck you out of it especially the tail end which probably helps answer a common question that gets asked which is is it better to be inside the plane or free-falling outside of the plane and if you're wondering that yourself just know that of the forty-three people that have survived 31 of them were inside the plane so yeah it's better in there not only does the body of the plane take up at least a little bit of the impact there's a little bit of a crumple zone there but it's also got a wider surface area which means it catches more air gets more air resistance and actually slows down a little bit on the way down alright so you're at cruising altitude and the plane breaks apart in the air the first things gonna happen is you're gonna pass out the atmosphere at 30,000 feet is very thin very cold and very without oxygen for example the area of Mount Everest above 26,000 feet is called the Death Zone because you need an oxygen tank above that point so when the plane breaks up you're gonna feel a blast of incredibly cold air and then light by the time you come to you'll be at around 22,000 feet you still got about two more minutes before you hit the ground and here's what you've got to make a couple of decisions while ignoring the giant turd that's formed in your pants so if you're actually in a solid piece of the plane that's managed to stay together the best thing you can do is just tighten your seat belt hold on in which for the best that really is your best option but if you've been thrown from the plane the first thing you want to do is turn yourself into a flying squirrel spread your arms and legs out as far as possible like a skydiver make your surface area as big as possible to catch as much air as you can and slow down arch your back keep your head up and aim yourself remember time is on your side some people would actually argue that falling out of a plane is better than falling off of a really tall building because you've actually got a little bit of time time to slow your fall time to find a good spot to land so what makes a good landing spot the simple answer is anything that can cushion your fall even a little bit a grassy area bushes are good swampy areas are really great trees are better than rocks although trees can stick you a little bit there are even stories of people surviving by bouncing off of electrical wires now contrary to popular belief water is actually a terrible option water doesn't compress so a terminal velocity hitting water isn't that much different than hitting concrete the only difference is once you shatter all your bones on concrete it doesn't then swallow you up but if you do have to hit water because the world is mostly water you want to go in feet-first like a pencil as sharp as you possibly can and make sure and tighten your butt cheeks or else you're gonna get the worst intima of all time all right so it's been a couple of minutes after you've woken up you're getting pretty close to the ground you've got a good landing spot you're approaching it how exactly do you hit the ground there's not really any consensus on this and not a lot of people experimenting on themselves to find out but in general most deaths from Falls occur because of head traumas so generally you want to land and roll on your feet kind of like a skydiver and let your body take the blow the old hit and roll maneuver it's a classic no matter how you land chances are you're gonna lose consciousness again because that's what the brain does when every inch of your body is screaming at it in absolute pain when you come to if you're lucky you fell in near a populated area where people can quickly get to you and if not let's hope you got some survival skills because it might be time to drink your own piss but really the chances of you ever needing to know this pretty slim air travel is by far the safest mode of travel in the world and it keeps getting safer every year the whole keeping planes up in the air and landing safely is something that thankfully we've kind of got down at this point so with a little bit of luck you'll never fall I have an airplane but if you do with a lot of luck you might survive it alright I hope that was fun and a little bit educational for you I hope you guys enjoyed that real quick I want to shout out some patreon supporters I don't usually do this on Thursdays but I'm really behind I had a whole lot of people sign up and I've got to catch up on them so let me shout out some names real quick we 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Channel: Joe Scott

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Keywords: answers with joe, random thursday, plane crashes, skydiving, bear grylls, vesna vulovic, alan magee, juliane koepche, death zone, worst case scenario, how to survive, how to survive a fall from an airplane

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Length: 12min 0sec (720 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 06 2018